pliant

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking.

• a pliant thread
• pliant wax

Easily influenced; tractable.figuratively

• I muſt haue wanton Poets, pleaſant wits, Muſitians, that with touching of a ſtring May draw the pliant king which way I pleaſe: […]
• [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]